Almost every single extra virgin olive oil blog online will tell you to store your olive oil in a dark bottle, preferably somewhere cool with very little light. The truth is that if you are in possession of a few bottles of ultra premium extra virgin olive oil, this is simply not necessary.

Since our olive oil doesn't sit under the intense UV lights on supermarket shelves, we simply don't have to use dark bottles.

At Selo, we have the luxury of shipping directly to our customers. This means our customers have the luxury of showing off their liquid gold to friends and family, and don't have to worry about rancid oils and spoilage.

Precaution aside, the main reason that large industrial producers of olive oil sell their wares in dark tinted bottles is that they are often cut with industrial seed oils that spoil easily.

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Typically, we recommend using the oil within about a year and a half of the harvest date.

Olive oil is an extraordinarily robust fruit juice so freezing temperatures just won’t affect its nutrient content.

Recent research by Mulinacci et al (2013) has proven that freezing temperatures have no effect on olive oil quality.

Basically, a bunch of very smart chemists from Italy discovered that freezing extra virgin olive oil for 12-18 months not only had no impact on its nutrient content—compared to olive oil stored in the dark at room temperature for the same period of time—it even improved its aromatic profile.

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At the current moment, we ship ONLY to the United States and Canada.

If you are based in another part of the world and are willing to cover the additional shipping costs, we can ship it to you. Do note, it will probably be very expensive.

Send an email to hello@selooils.com and we'll work it out.

Our primary market is North America. Europe has a wide variety of regional olive oils to choose from, but Selo is not one of them. It doesn't make sense for us to sell olive oil in an already saturated market, so we bring our product to the US & Canada where it is bottled and stored for distribution. Our mission at Selo Oils is to share our special Croatian tradition with people who have simply never tried real extra virgin olive oil before.

If you have placed an order that will go to Europe, you will have to select International Air, Tracked Packet International or Xpresspost International as your shipping option. Packet tracking is not available for International Surface shipping.